The Nigerian army has defeated Boko Haram in the Sambisa forest, one of the “jihadists'” last remaining strongholds, President Muhammadu Buhari said Saturday. A campaign lasting for months in the 1,300 square-kilometer forest in northeastern Borno state led to the “final crushing of Boko Haram terrorists in their last enclave ...
Only last week two suicide bombers killed 30 people in northeastern Nigeria, but the governor of Borno state, the country’s terrorist heartland, told AFP in an interview that Boko Haram has been defeated. Kashim Shettima said the war against the terrorist militants was “over” and predicted that hundreds of thousands ...
